I'm on a a major street in a secondary market with a few houses on one side and the other. Commercial developers have tried to come in here and there and get us to sell out. (The latest was a Wal*Mart store which was successfully fended off. Well, that, followed by this corporate Real Estate VP who wanted to move next door.)
Now, with this ruling, a developer just has to convince the city that all the properties along a major road will best serving the public as commercial property. Actually, I don't think it'd be that tough. Congratulations! You've given the developer the right to evict those troublesome homeowners that stand in the way of their profits.
No, its funny to talk about, but it is true. Most 'one size fits all' hats do not fit. If I try to wear them, it ends up... don't laugh... cutting off the circulation in my head and I get this strange dizzy/headache feeling.
I've only managed to find a very small number of one-size-fits-all hats that actually do fit. I haven't measured my head size, but I'm only 5'8".
But didn't the courts just get through telling the FCC that they had no power to create regulations regarding receivers?
Did I misunderstand the ruling regarding the broadcast flag, or is the FCC ignoring the meaning of it?
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Yes, if I had to go LCD, I'd go that one.
But my Sony GDM does an even greater 2048x1280 @ 70fps resolution, also has multiple inputs, doesn't suffer from pixel death, and even better, can lock to a variable refresh rate to match what my video card can do in a game, and can multisync into virtually any common video mode known to man and not look funny.
I can also kill small critters with it.
Seriously, though, there are tradeoffs between CRT monitors and LCD monitors.
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No way! Y is overpriced and will never totally replicate the features of X. Besides, Z is just over the horizon and Y will be obsolete even quicker than X was!
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The Sony 24" Widescreen CRTs were some of the best ever made. They weigh a ton. But they'll do 2048x1280 @ 70fps. (To you HDTV types, that's 1920p60... 60 frames per second... not fields.)
Get 'em while they're cheap, and you still can. The only downside is that they have VGA inputs, so they won't work will your audio/video equipment and make a nice HDTV without a scan converter. But they will hook into your VGA card and look just great.
The write-up certainly seems more threatening in the alternative context...
Also with regards to the speed of such attacks, "fisting attacks can occur very rapidly, with only limited elapsed time between the initial intrusion and a fisting..."
Oh, and if you lost that "I'm so better than you because I can waste more money" attitude, maybe girls would be willing to talk to you.
Well, if you pardon me, you're the one who introduced money into this thread. You're the one who then dismissed it as a waste. You're the one who claimed not to read a response which disproved your view. You're the one now turning this into a personal attack.
Seems to me that the only problem I have to deal with here is on the other side of the keyboard.
High Definition? I have Digital cable and half the channels are high def.
Congratulations! I have digital cable. My locals (when they broadcast in high definition) + 4 channels + 2 subscription channels are in high def. Are yours 720p or 1080i?
If I use s-video to hook my TV up to my computer, I have a choice of multiple audio or video streams.
S-Video is not high definition. It is limited to 480i. It can't do 480p, 720p, 1080i.
I have a choice of multiple audio or video streams. Perfect copy? Copy of what? I'm playing my copy on my computer.
Well, high definition images are fed to your digital cable box in an MPEG2 transport stream. And multiple audio and video streams can be active on a single channel. This is exactly what is recorded with a DVHS deck.
Perfect copy? Copy of what? I'm playing my copy on my computer.
I'm recording the transport stream 100% perfect as it is sent out. Bit for bit, I capture everything that comes to my digital cable DVR, and in high definition. There is no data loss because there is no digitization of video.
You haven't answered any of the questions I asked. What can you do with your TV that I can't do?
480p, 720p, 1080i. ATSC decording, QAM decoding. 3x firewire input, HDMI/DMI input, multiple component inputs (analog) in high definition. I believe I also have multiple S-Video, composite video inputs. Also a cable NTSC input and antenna NTSC input.
My television can directly and display the MPEG2 stream that is transported over an HDMI, DMI, broadcast ATSC, cable QAM, or Firewire connection (like to a PC, or a DVHS deck, and in the future, some HD DVD solution). It can also take the video that comes over the QAM or ATSC tuner and output that to Firewire for capture on the computer.
You see, right now I am watching The Science of Star Wars on DiscoveryHD. I've got the following firewire loop going...
Motorola DCT 6412 HD DVR --> Sony KD-34XBR960 -- Windows XP SP2
At the same time that I'm watching The Science of Star Wars in 1080i high definition on my television, I am recording a bit-perfect copy on my PC. The bit-perfect copy is the exact MPEG2 transport stream that is sent from the channel provider, over digital cable, and to my HD DVR.
You cannot make bit-perfect copies with your video capture card or with your television. You have to digitize the video and then record it. I take the original digital format, as broadcast, and record it to my hard drive. Much like if you recorded the digital video stream send out by a local television station broadcasting in digital and high definition. You can play it back perfectly.
Streams seem to average about 1gb every 10 minutes. That's a bit rate of 18.2Mbps for 1920x1080 resolution with a 16:9 aspect ratio at 29.97fps.
Technically, I shouldn't be able to copy a 5c protected video to my PC, but apparently, my HD DVR has a bug that allows me to do just that.
Now, if there was a properly behaved 5c protected stream on the computer, I could download the video off of the Internet, play it on my TV, but still not be able to make copies. I would be restricted to the program that streams the HDTV video to my TV.
Now, to be able to compare this with the situation with movie, imagine you've got a magic wand which let's you copy that Ferrari at the dealership with a wave of your hand, bolt-by-bolt, and then drive that copy for free. Are you still committing a theft then? I wouldn't say so. The guy still got his Ferrari. You didn't steal anything.
I dunno. You may have devalued Ferrari. I mean, if you, and several hundred of like minded individuals in a city waved a magic wand and created their own Ferrari, it just loses its mistique. I mean, if it started to get commonplace to see a Ferrari all around down, would someone still shell out the bucks for the real thing?
I think this effect is much lesser when it comes to a movie. But the effect becomes significant when the amount of piracy is extreme. Would you pay $8 for a movie that all your buddies tell you they are watching for free?
All that said... I think the problem with the movie industry is that they're forcing a singular distribution model (the theater) on an audience. I don't think people are objecting to the price... rather, they are objecting to the distribution forced choices.
Sony KD34XBR960. Yes. It has three firewire ports.
It can receive video directly from my Motorola DCT6412 HD DVR via firewire. People with Apples have been able to record a Transport Steram and play it back on the Sony HDTV and some Mitsubishi HDTVs. People in Windows have been able to just do that with the Mitsu HDTVs so far, but I am somewhat close to geting the Sony TVs to be recognized under Windows, but I need just a bit more help from someone who is good with Windows. It just looks like the proper driver is in the AVC class, but it sees the hardware as a 1391 device, so it never picks up a driver that'll work.
Why isn't it an anti-trust or restraint of trade issue that the only way you can watch a movie that has been released is in a movie theater?
I mean, is this legal, or has nobody really tried to force the door open to other means of legal distribution? I believe a great deal of the P2P activity is due to the exclusive distribution deals forcing a choice on some consumers, and no choice on other )non-US) consumers.
I want to view this at home in my home theater without all the trouble that is involved in going to the movie theater. I would pay a price comparable to the movie theater for this.
You're forcing me to take your goods in a way that is inconvenient to me, and then complaining "my poor lost revenue" because I don't want your goods in the single way you're distributing them.
You've married yourself to the movie theater with your exclusive distribution deals. Well, here is the result. You customers don't like your exclusive deals and they work around it. Don't complain to us about it.
Want to fix it? I don't care what your method of delivery is. Video over IP to my cable company's DVR. Pay Per View. Firewire from PC to TV. PC download and viewing. A high def Akimbo type box. Picking up a DVD rental.
Give us a freaking choice that works for us, and we'll give you the money.
Flipping through the eleven-hundred pages, you notice the gratuitous inclusion of mathematical formulae and the chapter titles on the page headers......suddenly, the lights go out. You have been eaten by a grue.
Here's what concerns me. I'm sure it is a newbie question. If I've got a VOIP provider, what happens when my computer starts cranking some serious bandwidth in or out of my cable modem connection? Do I need to invest in some different home cable router to prioritize the VOIP traffic?
I mean, I can't have someone on the phone making a call, all the sudden to go into low rez choppy digital speech because someone else decided to download the latest Linux distro.
No... mercury is JUST the thing! I mean... think of it... not only are you overclocking your PC to the extreme, but you are using a cooling system that is so extreme, it can kill people! I tell you, geeks will trip all over themselves for this one!:)
I knew this reply would happen. 1080i @30fps is not 540p at 60fps. 1080i paints 540 of the odd lines, then goes back and paints 540 of the even lines. These are totally separate lines that do not share the same space. They are unique lines. The same lines are not repainted on your screen.
1080i to 720p is not upscaling. It is downscaling.
1080i really is 1080 lines tall. It is just their _moment in time_ is 1/60th apart between the even and odd lines, and these lines cover totally different spacial positions, as well as the 1/60th difference in temporal positions.
The reason to fork over thousands of dollars for trendier offerings? Picture size.
The reason Plasma/LCD are on the market wasn't because they were selected for image quality. Quite a ways from it. Instead, they were able to scale to sizes greater than 40".
Tube based HDTVs are only manufactured to about 36" today. And they are an awesome value for what you get... they've got an excellent image quality. The problem is that to fully resolve a 1080i image with your eye, you've got to be sitting pretty close to a tube of that size.
The ideal would be a full 1080i screen that is quite large where you can set a ways back and get the full resolution. But a plasma or LCD of that size and at 1080i/1080p? You're talking serious cash.
If you're willing to sit a little closer to your TV (say, 6-7' on a 34" tube), then CRTs are an excellent value. The Sony KD34XBR960 and KD34XS955 are the recognizied reference standard when it comes to direct view picture quality.
Point taken, and I don't know who your provider is, or how high-end of a display you have, but I see a marked difference in resolution between 720p and 1080i video. I don't think it comes from the extra 360 vertical lines.
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I'm on a a major street in a secondary market with a few houses on one side and the other. Commercial developers have tried to come in here and there and get us to sell out. (The latest was a Wal*Mart store which was successfully fended off. Well, that, followed by this corporate Real Estate VP who wanted to move next door.)
Now, with this ruling, a developer just has to convince the city that all the properties along a major road will best serving the public as commercial property. Actually, I don't think it'd be that tough. Congratulations! You've given the developer the right to evict those troublesome homeowners that stand in the way of their profits.
No, its funny to talk about, but it is true. Most 'one size fits all' hats do not fit. If I try to wear them, it ends up... don't laugh... cutting off the circulation in my head and I get this strange dizzy/headache feeling.
I've only managed to find a very small number of one-size-fits-all hats that actually do fit. I haven't measured my head size, but I'm only 5'8".
But didn't the courts just get through telling the FCC that they had no power to create regulations regarding receivers?
Did I misunderstand the ruling regarding the broadcast flag, or is the FCC ignoring the meaning of it?
Yes, if I had to go LCD, I'd go that one.
But my Sony GDM does an even greater 2048x1280 @ 70fps resolution, also has multiple inputs, doesn't suffer from pixel death, and even better, can lock to a variable refresh rate to match what my video card can do in a game, and can multisync into virtually any common video mode known to man and not look funny.
I can also kill small critters with it.
Seriously, though, there are tradeoffs between CRT monitors and LCD monitors.
No way! Y is overpriced and will never totally replicate the features of X. Besides, Z is just over the horizon and Y will be obsolete even quicker than X was!
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The Sony 24" Widescreen CRTs were some of the best ever made. They weigh a ton. But they'll do 2048x1280 @ 70fps. (To you HDTV types, that's 1920p60
Get 'em while they're cheap, and you still can. The only downside is that they have VGA inputs, so they won't work will your audio/video equipment and make a nice HDTV without a scan converter. But they will hook into your VGA card and look just great.
"I don't understand? The search engine doesn't work! It just sits there and does nothing!"
My boss just walked by. He said that he has the same problem with some of his employees. [oops!]
"I don't understand? The search engine doesn't work! It just sits there and does nothing!"
The write-up certainly seems more threatening in the alternative context...
Also with regards to the speed of such attacks, "fisting attacks can occur very rapidly, with only limited elapsed time between the initial intrusion and a fisting..."
Ouch!
Oh, and if you lost that "I'm so better than you because I can waste more money" attitude, maybe girls would be willing to talk to you.
Well, if you pardon me, you're the one who introduced money into this thread. You're the one who then dismissed it as a waste. You're the one who claimed not to read a response which disproved your view. You're the one now turning this into a personal attack.
Seems to me that the only problem I have to deal with here is on the other side of the keyboard.
Your thoughts?
Good luck with your wasting money. And have fun with that Firewire TV.
I'm a geek! You can bet I will!
PS: Any HDTV is better than a $200 TV with s-video. Heck, by definition, even an EDTV blows the doors off of a $200 TV with s-video.
High Definition? I have Digital cable and half the channels are high def.
Congratulations! I have digital cable. My locals (when they broadcast in high definition) + 4 channels + 2 subscription channels are in high def. Are yours 720p or 1080i?
If I use s-video to hook my TV up to my computer, I have a choice of multiple audio or video streams.
S-Video is not high definition. It is limited to 480i. It can't do 480p, 720p, 1080i.
I have a choice of multiple audio or video streams. Perfect copy? Copy of what? I'm playing my copy on my computer.
Well, high definition images are fed to your digital cable box in an MPEG2 transport stream. And multiple audio and video streams can be active on a single channel. This is exactly what is recorded with a DVHS deck.
Perfect copy? Copy of what? I'm playing my copy on my computer.
I'm recording the transport stream 100% perfect as it is sent out. Bit for bit, I capture everything that comes to my digital cable DVR, and in high definition. There is no data loss because there is no digitization of video.
You haven't answered any of the questions I asked. What can you do with your TV that I can't do?
480p, 720p, 1080i. ATSC decording, QAM decoding. 3x firewire input, HDMI/DMI input, multiple component inputs (analog) in high definition. I believe I also have multiple S-Video, composite video inputs. Also a cable NTSC input and antenna NTSC input.
My television can directly and display the MPEG2 stream that is transported over an HDMI, DMI, broadcast ATSC, cable QAM, or Firewire connection (like to a PC, or a DVHS deck, and in the future, some HD DVD solution). It can also take the video that comes over the QAM or ATSC tuner and output that to Firewire for capture on the computer.
You see, right now I am watching The Science of Star Wars on DiscoveryHD. I've got the following firewire loop going...
Motorola DCT 6412 HD DVR --> Sony KD-34XBR960 -- Windows XP SP2
At the same time that I'm watching The Science of Star Wars in 1080i high definition on my television, I am recording a bit-perfect copy on my PC. The bit-perfect copy is the exact MPEG2 transport stream that is sent from the channel provider, over digital cable, and to my HD DVR.
You cannot make bit-perfect copies with your video capture card or with your television. You have to digitize the video and then record it. I take the original digital format, as broadcast, and record it to my hard drive. Much like if you recorded the digital video stream send out by a local television station broadcasting in digital and high definition. You can play it back perfectly.
Streams seem to average about 1gb every 10 minutes. That's a bit rate of 18.2Mbps for 1920x1080 resolution with a 16:9 aspect ratio at 29.97fps.
Technically, I shouldn't be able to copy a 5c protected video to my PC, but apparently, my HD DVR has a bug that allows me to do just that.
Now, if there was a properly behaved 5c protected stream on the computer, I could download the video off of the Internet, play it on my TV, but still not be able to make copies. I would be restricted to the program that streams the HDTV video to my TV.
>I> And what's the advantage to doing that over, say, S-Video? What can you do with your firewire enabled TV that I can't do?
High definition. A choice of multiple audio or video streams. Perfect copy. The kind of stuff that is great for video on demand.
Now, to be able to compare this with the situation with movie, imagine you've got a magic wand which let's you copy that Ferrari at the dealership with a wave of your hand, bolt-by-bolt, and then drive that copy for free. Are you still committing a theft then? I wouldn't say so. The guy still got his Ferrari. You didn't steal anything.
I dunno. You may have devalued Ferrari. I mean, if you, and several hundred of like minded individuals in a city waved a magic wand and created their own Ferrari, it just loses its mistique. I mean, if it started to get commonplace to see a Ferrari all around down, would someone still shell out the bucks for the real thing?
I think this effect is much lesser when it comes to a movie. But the effect becomes significant when the amount of piracy is extreme. Would you pay $8 for a movie that all your buddies tell you they are watching for free?
All that said... I think the problem with the movie industry is that they're forcing a singular distribution model (the theater) on an audience. I don't think people are objecting to the price... rather, they are objecting to the distribution forced choices.
Your TV has Firewire?
Sony KD34XBR960. Yes. It has three firewire ports.
It can receive video directly from my Motorola DCT6412 HD DVR via firewire. People with Apples have been able to record a Transport Steram and play it back on the Sony HDTV and some Mitsubishi HDTVs. People in Windows have been able to just do that with the Mitsu HDTVs so far, but I am somewhat close to geting the Sony TVs to be recognized under Windows, but I need just a bit more help from someone who is good with Windows. It just looks like the proper driver is in the AVC class, but it sees the hardware as a 1391 device, so it never picks up a driver that'll work.
Why isn't it an anti-trust or restraint of trade issue that the only way you can watch a movie that has been released is in a movie theater?
I mean, is this legal, or has nobody really tried to force the door open to other means of legal distribution? I believe a great deal of the P2P activity is due to the exclusive distribution deals forcing a choice on some consumers, and no choice on other )non-US) consumers.
I want to view this at home in my home theater without all the trouble that is involved in going to the movie theater. I would pay a price comparable to the movie theater for this.
You're forcing me to take your goods in a way that is inconvenient to me, and then complaining "my poor lost revenue" because I don't want your goods in the single way you're distributing them.
You've married yourself to the movie theater with your exclusive distribution deals. Well, here is the result. You customers don't like your exclusive deals and they work around it. Don't complain to us about it.
Want to fix it? I don't care what your method of delivery is. Video over IP to my cable company's DVR. Pay Per View. Firewire from PC to TV. PC download and viewing. A high def Akimbo type box. Picking up a DVD rental.
Give us a freaking choice that works for us, and we'll give you the money.
Flipping through the eleven-hundred pages, you notice the gratuitous inclusion of mathematical formulae and the chapter titles on the page headers... ...suddenly, the lights go out.
You have been eaten by a grue.
*** YOU HAVE DIED ***
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Play again?
Here's what concerns me. I'm sure it is a newbie question. If I've got a VOIP provider, what happens when my computer starts cranking some serious bandwidth in or out of my cable modem connection? Do I need to invest in some different home cable router to prioritize the VOIP traffic?
I mean, I can't have someone on the phone making a call, all the sudden to go into low rez choppy digital speech because someone else decided to download the latest Linux distro.
...whereas tracking and killing innocent animals on foot is just fine...
:)
What do you expect them to do, only hunt down the guilty animals? Perhaps just the carnivores and omnivores?
No... mercury is JUST the thing! I mean... think of it... not only are you overclocking your PC to the extreme, but you are using a cooling system that is so extreme, it can kill people! I tell you, geeks will trip all over themselves for this one! :)
I knew this reply would happen. 1080i @30fps is not 540p at 60fps. 1080i paints 540 of the odd lines, then goes back and paints 540 of the even lines. These are totally separate lines that do not share the same space. They are unique lines. The same lines are not repainted on your screen.
1080i to 720p is not upscaling. It is downscaling.
1080i really is 1080 lines tall. It is just their _moment in time_ is 1/60th apart between the even and odd lines, and these lines cover totally different spacial positions, as well as the 1/60th difference in temporal positions.
The reason to fork over thousands of dollars for trendier offerings? Picture size.
The reason Plasma/LCD are on the market wasn't because they were selected for image quality. Quite a ways from it. Instead, they were able to scale to sizes greater than 40".
Tube based HDTVs are only manufactured to about 36" today. And they are an awesome value for what you get... they've got an excellent image quality. The problem is that to fully resolve a 1080i image with your eye, you've got to be sitting pretty close to a tube of that size.
The ideal would be a full 1080i screen that is quite large where you can set a ways back and get the full resolution. But a plasma or LCD of that size and at 1080i/1080p? You're talking serious cash.
If you're willing to sit a little closer to your TV (say, 6-7' on a 34" tube), then CRTs are an excellent value. The Sony KD34XBR960 and KD34XS955 are the recognizied reference standard when it comes to direct view picture quality.
Point taken, and I don't know who your provider is, or how high-end of a display you have, but I see a marked difference in resolution between 720p and 1080i video. I don't think it comes from the extra 360 vertical lines.